Informal Online Decision Making: Current Practices and Support System Design
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Existing group decision support systems focus on complex or enterprise decision-making, much of it pre-Web. There is little research that takes this work and applies it to support a new type of lightweight, informal decision-making made popular by the amount of information on the Web. We examine related work and undertake an online survey and formative study to examine how people currently use the Web for decision support. Our results and analysis provide a basis for the design of a lightweight informal Web decision support tool. Author
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Informal Online Decision Making: Current Practices and Support System Design
Existing group decision support systems are too complex to support lightweight, informal decision making made popular by the amount of information available on the Web. From an examination of related work, an online survey and a formative study to examine how people currently use the Web for decision support, we present a set of design recommendations towards the development of an informal Web ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2008